Greetings Does anyone know if there is a NRSV (RC) Daily Missal? If so where might I obtain this? Blessings on your Lenten journey Bosco www.liturgy.co.nz...
My apologies for a question that is at best tangential and at worst off topic, but I'm trying to get my (14 - 16 year old) Confirmation youth excited about the...
Dear Friends, As I was lining up in the Unison Chorus for a rehearsal of Tobias and the Angel,an opera receiving its North American premiere here in a few...
I enjoy chanting the Psalms (usually alone) and use mostly simple plainchant settings. I wonder if anyone has a good idea for a simple but versatile instrument...
Friends, The second installment of "When Bad Things Happen to Good Liturgy" is now avaliable at its dedicated address: badliturgy.blogspot.com This issue...
Dear Friends, I would like to invite you to read the first installment in my new series "When Bad Things Happen to Good Liturgy" at the following link: ...
Greetings I have been working hard to provide a simple introduction for those starting out on praying the Liturgy of the Hours. This is what I have prepared: ...
"In Mary God has grown small to make us great." St. Ephrem (d. 373) Christmas blessings from Aotearoa New Zealand we are first past the dateline and, hence,...
Back around 1994-1995 or so, my Episcopal parish celebrated a Feast of Lights on Epiphany. This year, with Epiphany falling on a Sunday, we thought it might...
Thank you James and Lewis for your responses to Wulfstan - they are very helpful. I'm getting the information for a friend who is making vestments for someone...
+++ ... i gotta laugh. The very first time i walked into an orthodox church, they asked me if i wanted to read the epistle. I said, sure why not. So i did and...
CHRISTMAS ORATORIO ~ BNSIC LIVE 90 min. This world premiere concert brought to you live from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception...
Dear liturgy group I have a question - does anyone know of an emblem or insignia for St. Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (11th century)? I figured if anyone...
Friends... Is anyone familiar with a book which might have been read in the early 20th C entitled "The Wounds of the Lamb of God?" Google isn't of much help,...
Dear friends: I'm working with some letters at the NYPL, and am stumped. The author (a Roman Catholic priest) mentions asking booksellers about what has...
... A deliciously sarcastic letter written by Fr Fortescue was last year posted on the Roman Miscellany blog, whose priest-writer works in the Archdiocese of...
To any of you who have tried to make use of my LaughingBird.net resources site recently, and been unable to access it, I apologise. There has been a bungle in...
+++ ... um, the point being? actually, i would have thought that the reason why carols were not allowed in church (not that i ever went to a church where this...
I realize everyone is consumed with Advent & Christmas stuff, but I thought I'd ask your opinion about GW. I'm reading his book: Eucharist & Eschatology (I...
I have come up with an hypothesis that I would like to test. That when churches built in the first millennium do not orient east, it is a function of some...
Easy to figure out which candle to light first...the one across from the rose one. But which one do we light next week? Do we go to the right or clockwise,...
I guess it much depends on which saints you're talking about, doesn't it? It is difficult for me to imagine that there would be much consensus on this matter,...
... hi. i thought the advent wreath was really ONLY a home devotion. So i'd like to ask, When and why did it acquire the huge importance for the church rites...
